Resistance Training

Today, Doug Pike discusses resistance training, driving, and smoking.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, and welcome yet again to fifty plus and thanks
for listening on this Tuesday. And a nice one by
the way, not a bad day at all. God. Fifty
plus a birthday for me that was a long time ago,
way way way back. Will you're looking what you had
twenty something years to go before you catch your fifty

(01:12):
So and know this, a lot of people will tell
you you're gonna feel bad, you're gonna be tired, You're
not gonna be able to do as much as you
used to do. It's entirely up to you if you
put effort into it you will, you will be greatly rewarded.
I feel like I'm in reasonable shape for my age,
I really do. But I also on occasions feel like

(01:33):
somebody keeps dropping bricks into my golf bag. Things seem
heavier than they used to, and that's a lot my
own fault. Honestly, I don't do a whole lot of
weight training, but I'll I'll walk a good bit. But
twenty twenty five is gonna be the year I start
picking up heavy stuff again on purpose. I'll let you

(01:56):
know when I start to maybe even hit the ball
a little farther on a golf course if I if
I throw in some stretching along with some resistance training.
That's that's what the doctor said when I was at
my annual physical back in December. You need to do
some resistance training, which was a polite way of telling
me you're losing muscle mass faster than you have to do.

(02:19):
You work out at all? Will? I would say, I'm
in peak physical condition, You're pretty good shape, you look
pretty ripped. You can't count walking the dog though, unless
you do it for more than fifteen minutes. I do,
so does that count? You take the dog on healthy walks. Sure, sure,
when it's nice out. What about now? Is it nice

(02:42):
out now? I tell them dry? Yeah? Put them Oh, somebody,
somebody pilford our pen that's been in here for the
better part of six or eight months. Do you need
that bluepen over there? No? Can I have it? Maybe?
Come on, come on, come on, I'm rooting for you,

(03:03):
like trying to get my puppy to pick up his
first goose long time ago. Thank you. Will good retrieve,
my friend, good retrieve? All right, so will Melbourne in
the studio as always, and we'll get to the weather
real quick. I'm not gonna dwell on that stuff anymore.
Everybody knows what the weather is, but I do kind
of like to take a look. And if you've been
kind of stuck in the house or haven't paid attention,

(03:25):
haven't gotten outside yet, that's okay. Brought to us as
always by Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists because clean air
is healthy air, and you can go to texasiaq dot
net to find out what they do and how they
do it and why you ought to get it done.
They're coming to my house actually soon to do some work,
not that specific task, but another that needs doing before

(03:47):
summertime comes back. We're past in the present here the
coldest well, the cold nights, the truly below freezing nights,
and at least for most of the area, back to
cool overall. And we're not predicted to feel fifty degrees
at all until Sunday. This front is like it's like

(04:10):
winter through a brick with a note tied to it
through our window, and the note says, consider this a warning.
Even the extended forecast all the way to January twenty
doesn't show any day that gets into the sixties. Maybe
we will, maybe we won't. After that, that's as far
out as I could look, and I don't trust it
passed about Thursday anyway. But as we move into winter,

(04:35):
we will get more cooler into the cold range. And
you know what that is if you listen to this show.
For me, we will get cooler into cold weather. Certainly
between now in springtime, I would stake everything I've got
on at least one good dump down into maybe the

(04:55):
mid twenties. I don't want anything colder than that around here.
I have to do extra work around the house when
that happens, and I don't want to do that extra
work because it just is uncomfortable to be out in
that for somebody who was raised in Houston, Texas, spent
most of my life in this city, and happy to
say that I'm very proud to be a Hustonian slash

(05:18):
sugar Lander with temporary forays into two different states, and
for a while almost enough time down in Florida to
count it as a temporary residence. At least I loved
going down there, and I did as often as I could,
did as often as I could to the markets. We

(05:39):
go Houston Gooldexchange dot Com taking care of that for us.
All four indicators in the red an hour ago, with
the Nasdaq and Russell two thousand hit the hardest, Oils
up again higher than seventy four dollars a barrel and
still on a steady but slow rise. Also around eleven
o'clock Gold up, which is good news for anyone interested

(06:02):
in that up nearly twenty bucks and well north of
twenty six hundred bucks the last I looked. When Brad
gets back from his international offshore fishing trip, I think
he may come back today. Actually, once he's back, I'll
talk to him a little bit about that and why
it is what it is. Into the news. We die,
we can dive into the news. Will we can go

(06:24):
to one quick, little, short fun thing. Let's do that
rather than rather than me have to read really quickly
on any of this other stuff. We're not in Kansas anymore,
and these are just fun facts to know. Intel get
to the point, or take a hike, get to the point.
The US Constitution, will is the shortest constitution of any

(06:47):
major country in the world. Did you know that? Would
you have thought that? Would you have guessed that? No?
I think the people who wrote that constitution just said, look,
we're going to make it as simple as possible so
that the words we put down on these pages will

(07:08):
will be easy to understand. They'll be challenged, but it's
just right there. There's no way to get it wrong.
And that's why we have that panel of judges too,
because there are gray areas in every aspect of rule
and law, and so that's why the judges are there
to interpret it as is, as is necessary to compete

(07:35):
with the times. And I've got twenty seconds that I'm
going to reserve this one because this is a good one,
So I'll reserve it for a little bit later. We'll
take a little break here. On the way out, I'll
tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging, a collaborative
effort among thousands of providers around here. There are a
lot of people involved. Now the longer it's around, the

(07:55):
bigger it gets, because the doctors and therapists and trainers
and everybody who's nurses, everybody who works in medical facilities
that are tied to the Institute on Aging has gone
back and gotten additional training in how their area of expertise,
their knowledge of a specific subject can be applied even

(08:19):
more specifically to seniors that would be us. And that's
really important for us because a lot of providers who
don't have that knowledge come at your issue as a
senior as they might someone in a broader age group,
and that may not be in your best interest. You
don't know that. I'm not saying any doctors out there

(08:41):
are going to do you wrong, but I share like
the idea of being in front of a doctor who
has gotten that additional training to dial it down to us.
Go to their website. In addition to all these providers
around town, and they do work all over town, mostly
in the med center as you might guess, but there
are outlying hospitals and clinics where people from the Institute

(09:03):
on Aging practice their area of medicine weekly go see them.
Go to that website too and look at all the
resources it makes available to you uth dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging. Now they sure don't make
them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike, Hi welcome back.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Segment two starts now fifty plus on this What day
is this the seventh? Is that right? Holy cow? One
full week once we hit midnight, one full week into
the new year. Not that I don't know, I'm just
kind of in the steady grind. I've got to go
back to my desk and tighten up the screw in
this pair of glasses I'm wearing, Otherwise it's going to

(10:10):
pop out of there. It's just hanging on by a thread.
I truly believe that we'll figure it out. In something
I titled cut Them Loose, President Biden this week released
eleven you many men captured after the September eleventh, two
thousand and one attack on America. They were in Guantanamo

(10:32):
Bay in detention for lo these many years, and now
he's cut them loose and sent them to Oman. And
if you're looking for the good news, I'm gonna start
speaking sarcastically. Now. The Omani government has promised to quote
help resettle them and provide security monitoring end quote of

(10:57):
these former believed to be out Kaida members. Yeah, that's
really comforting that another another country that's not exactly super
friendly with US is in charge of keeping an eye
on eleven guys who were involved in that and probably

(11:20):
not real thrilled with us right now for hanging on
to them for so long. We'll find out from a
story out of Boston this past week, many they say,
I think the number was pegged at around one point
seven million, something like that. Anyway, the story was about

(11:40):
cognitively impaired seniors driving, driving themselves regularly to appointments to
the grocery store, to wherever they might be going. People
who are trying to maintain their independence, when, according to
the story at least probably written by somebody much younger,

(12:00):
maybe they just shouldn't be on the road at all.
As many as one in six, it said, drivers over
the age sixty five, and there are a lot of
us out there are doing that to just they're trying
to live their lives independently, which I applaud, and now
comes the suggestion that seniors should have to prove their

(12:22):
ability to get around through additional testing rather than just
automatic renewal of a driver's license. How about just check
the driving record and if it's not any worse than
anybody else's, just let them continue to live their lives.
How about until they get lost once, truly lost once?

(12:43):
Maybe let them continue to be independent if those tests
are here's the risk we take with this. It's kind
of like these red flag laws about guns. If somebody
reports an older person to say they believe that person
is cognitively and should be off the road, and the

(13:03):
dominoes start to fall behind that accusation. If for some
reason the test results are either faulty or misread or whatever,
there's a great risk that somebody who's perfectly capable of
taking care of themselves could have his or her license revoked,
which would render them unable to care for themselves anymore,

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dependent on somebody to get them everywhere they have to go,
and that almost certainly would lead to depression, It would
lead to social isolation, It would lead in many cases
to mandatory moves to facilities where they didn't want to be,
or they would already have been there. Just all kinds
of burdens. I see. It is pretty much unfair unless

(13:46):
there's really clear evidence of significant impairment that would that
would prohibit them from being able to get from home
to the grocery store, home to a doctor's appointment. It
bothers me me the first step toward traffic safety. I'm
just spitballing here, But how about get more officers on

(14:06):
the road to slow down or shut down all these
people who passed me at one hundred miles an hour
weaving in between cars on my way to and from
work in Houston. How about that? And actually the speed
isn't so much the factor on week days because there
are so many cars that it most of that gets
stifled before it gets started. But on the weekends, when

(14:30):
the road's a little more open, it's like, man, it's
a combination drag strip and NASCAR race. And these people
I've watched in my rearview mirror as drivers coming up
behind me at very high rates of speed have gone
around me and missed my car by less than a foot.

(14:54):
Less than a foot. I'm driving highway speed, I'm driving
the speed limit and they're coming up at a hundred
and they have no training whatsoever and driving at that
speed other than what they they're self taught. They're self
taught race drivers who aren't on an open track and
a place where people are watching for idiots going that fast.

(15:16):
But that's that's just me. From another story this past week,
Americans say they're greatest concerns. This is from the Captain
Obvious Desk. Greatest Concerns coming into twenty twenty five Money
in the Border. On an uplifting note, though, our business
here is on the rise right here at iHeart and
I'm glad to report that for all concerned, and the

(15:39):
attitude of people I know, generally from every walk of
life is optimistic. For the first time in four years.
There are a couple of there's a couple of Sarah
Grapes people. They are they just I don't I don't
think they like anything. But by and large, by and large,
the economy is pois used to do better. There's a

(16:02):
lot of just a lot of good stuff going on
where there was another story, though, which one do I
want to go to. There are several things that I'm
going to report about our president, our sitting president, because
he's just he's doing a lot of things in these

(16:22):
last couple of weeks in office that he probably shouldn't
be doing. I'll give you one. We've got a couple
of minutes here. I'll give you one that caught me
by surprise. Really. Of the thirty seven federal inmates whose
sentences were commuted recently by President Biden, two of them

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two men who were sentenced to death at their trials
and only had to sign paperwork to just be given
a get out of jail free card. Well, two of them,
two of the thirty seven pulled, lightly declined his offer,
and elected instead to remain incarcerated and in the process.

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And there's an interesting reason for that, because if they
just got out, they would lose the opportunity to clear themselves.
Because right now, the way our system works, who's sentenced
to death, the appeal process comes under really heightened scrutiny.

(17:30):
And if these guys accept the clemency, that denies them
that opportunity to have their cases re examined under a
very fine tooth comb, which is interesting. I would have
thought that they would just say, yeah, get me out
of here right now. My gut says that they are

(17:51):
in prison also for other offenses. And this is just
a hypothesis on my part, But why else would you
were asked to just hang around and have that death
sentence hanging over your head still? Other than that, you'd

(18:11):
probably still end up in president. I'm not really sure.
I'll have to go look into that. I'll look into that.
I don't want to be speaking out of school, which
I kind of am based on what I had the
time to read this morning about those two cases. But
it's interesting that somebody would opt not to accept that offer.
Social media news real quick, Mark Zuckerberg, seeing the writing

(18:34):
on the wall on the screen, I would say, and
he is going to turn his social media platform Facebook
into a free speech platform. Following a pretty good lead,
I would say, Mark, good idea free speech catching on.
I'll talk about something else that's catching on again or

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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, third segment of

(21:31):
today's edition of fifty plus Stars. Now, thanks for listening.
I'm Doug keyes Will and we will be around for
as long as Will will keep me on the air.
That's maybe the most times I've said Will in one
sentence in a long time. Will there you go again?
It just just rolls off the top that it's it's

(21:53):
an interesting first name. You've got to admit because it is.
It's a very common word in the English language. Have
you ever been in someplace and heard your name and
then realize nobody was calling your name, It was just
in the middle of somebody else's sentence. Yes, uh, yeah,
I would. I could see that. Will you get your
hands off me?

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
You don't ever want to hear that? Do you guess not?
That would be bad. But I would be able to
pick up immediately on the context. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
sure I didn't have my hands on it. Anybody. Well, yeah,
I would never think you would do anything like that.
So let's lighten it up here and and come back

(22:33):
to the hard stuff, because man, it's just there's some
really weird stuff going on with our current president. I'm
gonna I'm gonna hold that back for just a minute.
Uh let's go here. Will one a day? Every day?
Where does it stop? And no cameras in town? Where

(22:57):
does it stop? The consumer like trut rewind, the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas gets started today. The weirdest
gadgets unveiled so far include a robot vacuum that picks
up dirty socks. How lazy would someone have to be

(23:21):
to just toss their socks? Just walk through the house,
take the left sock off and drop it, Take the
right sock off and drop it two steps later, and
then just go on and watch TV or cook dinner.
Would you would you buy a sock picker up a robot?
Maybe innovation in this way just creates a problem that

(23:45):
nobody has and then convinces you that you have that
problem in order to sell it. You mean, like the
need for cell phones, like the need for pretty much
most of the drivers, Yeah, why what? Why not just
folks and take care of business? Also a stringless guitar,

(24:06):
which I'm not really I don't see how you could
fingerpick a stringless guitar. Maybe it's like a feromin you
don't think so. Maybe it's just just like you said,
it's something they're going to convince everybody they want, but

(24:27):
nobody needs another one. Here's how about this will a
high tech spoon that makes stuff taste saltier SALTI so
if you just lick the spoon, I guess it's just
like licking a bucket of salt or a salt block
out on the deer. Lease that's kind of messed up,
and get another useless innovation electric roller blades. Oh for

(24:54):
people who just can't muster the energy to roller skate,
they can just stand there and get knocked on their
butt when they hit a crack in the sidewalk without
even having to move a muscle. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
I want some of those to throw in the trash.
I'm sorry that some of this stuff really does get
a little Make it helpful, Make it helpful. I don't

(25:18):
know who comes up with these ideas, and even worse,
I don't know who backs them financially or convinces the
inventor that it's a good idea. I'm sitting on one
idea that I guarantee you, based on a lot of
knowledge of the subject, is worth a boatload of money.

(25:39):
A boatload of money. It would take some backing, it
would take probably one year of design and development, and
then after that it would just it would just be
a cash cow for anybody involved. Feel free to get
in touch with me, and if I can and trust you,

(26:00):
I will share the idea with you. If I can't,
I'll just hold on to it until I find someone
who is genuinely interested in leaving leaving their heirs nice,
steady income. Let's go back to where I was before,
because I got to get to some of this stuff
that he's doing, and it's really it's very frustrating. Most

(26:26):
recently or recently anyway, there's a lot of stuff that
all this stuff has happened since the election. Our president
cursed at reporters this past week. Tell him how many
world leaders he knows. He's the president of the United States,
for heaven's sakes, of course he's met a lot of
world leaders. If he hadn't, that would be more noteworthy,
and I would question his contention that all those world

(26:48):
leaders hold him in such high esteem and respect for him.
We've been pushed around and taking advantage of for the
past four years, and hopefully that's going to end soon.
Hopefully that will end. So I haven't in my lifetime
witnessed to president who was I don't know he was

(27:08):
just well, I kind of know why he's been as
soft as he has in some parts of the world,
but I don't want to get into that now. Also,
on his way out, he has declared now some six
hundred and twenty five million acres of potential offshore drilling
area for oil and gas. He has made it where

(27:31):
they're not supposed to be drilled on, pretty much in perpetuity.
He's actually done it, and he actually created a couple
of new parks in California. I think it's about sixty
or eighty thousand acres there that can't be drilled that.
Despite President Trump's promise that he was going to make

(27:52):
us energy independent again, Biden's trying like hell to make
it impossible for that to happen. But President Trump says,
while it's going to be difficult to reverse what Biden did,
it won't be impossible, and he will find a way
no matter what it takes to pull back that blanket,

(28:16):
that wet blanket. He's just he's a spiteful, dangerous old man.
Biden is at this point, and he's doing everything in
his power, plus everything other people are telling him to
do as president, all that's in his power to tie
President Trump's hands on his way to the old wal offs.
It's sad, it really is. Biden's offshore drilling band. It

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essentially covers the entire East and West coast, up and
down top to bottom. And of course they left the
Gulf Coast alone, because it's you know, it'll get done.
It'll get done, but it's gonna take a while for
President Trump to reverse that. Just that vengeful, pathetic wipe

(29:00):
of the pen. That's all it was. I talked about that.
How much time do I have? Ten seconds? Will? That's it?
You know, because I don't have to share an endorsement
right now. Couldn't I have an extra minute? Nah, we
gotta get out of here. Okay, let's do that. We'll
take a little break here. Will Melbourne and I Doug

(29:21):
Pike will be back in a couple of minutes to
share some more interesting fun facts to know and tell
on fifty plus.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Old Guy's rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more, with Doug rounding third and
headed home. We are on fifty plus today. I'm Will,
I'm Doug. He's will excuse me? Will you don't like that?

(29:58):
Do you? Oh? Man? Oh? Just getting back into the rhythm,
as they say, one more about our sitting president. Another
hail mary attempt on his part to drop an extra
skid mark on America. President Biden in the Food and
Drug Administration trying to ban the cigarettes currently on the

(30:22):
market and replace them with products that contain less nicotine.
The purpose, they say is to slow down and ultimately
eliminate smoking in this country. The people on the other
side of that situation say, all it's gonna do if

(30:44):
it does finally pass, is give a gift to every
smuggler and cartel in the world who will continue to
get cigarettes into this country just the way they bring
in drugs and people. Now, it's just going to create
a black market for traditional products, quite similar to that

(31:05):
for illegal drugs. And there's got to be a better way.
There's just got to be a better way than to
offer up to the cartels and the bad guys of
the world billions upon billions more dollars in illegal stuff
being brought into the country, and we're going to have

(31:25):
tobacco sniffing dogs. I guess at the airports. Who knows.
One of the bitter women on the View this week
actually compared the events of January sixth, four years ago,
to World War two and the Holocaust. That's one of
the most outrageous comparisons I've ever heard, And as it happened,

(31:46):
the audience actually got curiously quiet, hopefully in disbelief or
maybe realization of just how preposterous that statement actually was.
I'm forever perplexed by that show being renewed from year
to year four or five. Political Karen's up there complaining
about anything and everything that doesn't align with their overly

(32:08):
and overtly progressive stars. That's they're messed up. Will We're
back to you gonna You're gonna drive the bus for
a minute or two one a day every day. I'm
sticking with that one for a little while. Take a hike.
I'm reintroducing that offer to you and proof that Americans

(32:29):
are getting older. Take a hike. This one's easy and
it's a good one too, walking just five thousand steps
a day. It is it that's recommended when you see
the commercials on TV or you read it on pop
up ads. THO, Yeah, I always feel like it's toth
the number. Well, only five thousand, which will make it

(32:51):
easier for all of us, can reduce depression symptoms, which
I think is pretty good. My wife and I've been
walking a lot as many times as I have to
get up and leave my desk to go to the bathroom,
and as as far away as the bathroom is from
my desk in this building, I'm probably getting conservatively, because

(33:12):
I've actually counted the steps at take, so that would
be I'm probably getting close to eight hundred or one
thousand steps just making that trip back and forth. Why
are you laughing? It's a ridiculous number, isn't it though?
But go go over to my desk sometime and count
the steps from hitherto yon. It takes people a full

(33:36):
day to get to ten thousand step I know. But
I'm getting ten percent of it here just going to
the bathroom, really, I think, So you think I do? Okay,
I'll keep a chart. I'll keep a chart for a
week for how many times I have to get up
and go over there, and I will I will specifically
log the number of steps from both directions, either going

(33:57):
around and going past the front desk, going the other
way through the studios back here, and entering and exiting
through the through the secret door, the secret passage that's
not really that secret anymore, by the way, I did
find a way to get out of here. Uh. If
there's a fire drill and you're looking for stairs to
go through. There is a way, did you know that? No,

(34:21):
I found it. I'll show it to you after the
show if you want to see it. Now, you're just
gonna wait till you smell smoke and follow me. I'm gonna.
I'm gonna. You know, they always say, don't take the elevators,
but that's right, I'm taking the elevators. Well, then we'll
it's been nice knowing you. Okay, so let's go back.
No cameras in town, ulterior motive or hidden costs, hidden costs. Yeah,

(34:46):
and Airbnb. This guy, somebody who used the house didn't
empty the dishwasher. Oh no, how much were they charged
for not emptying the dishwasher? They washed the dishes, but
they they didn't empty it. One hundred and fifty dollars,
you're really close. One hundred and twenty dollars. Somebody wanted
them to pay for not emptying the dishwasher. Oh yeah,

(35:09):
I find that unnecessarily excessive. Now, airbianb owners are crazy,
are they? Yes? But it's just all I mean, ridiculous
demands for a cleaning fee. Right, So normally when you leave,
you'll pick it up yourself. You'll leave it, you'll take
the sheets of whatever, put them on the they want.

(35:32):
But you know they send somebody in to clean and
sometimes these bills that come afterwards, hundreds of dollars, hundreds
of dollars in scam. Yes, it's a scam. Will uh
what else do I want to talk about here? That
just I'll go to some good stuff. Okay, this is

(35:53):
not good. It's just interesting and it's too late for
this year. But maybe next year you can think about it,
or perhaps after another major holiday. There's a woman down
in Florida. This woman in Florida is she's twenty two
years old, so she's on the young side, not making
a lot of money and trying to stretch her dollars.
And what she is doing after Christmas is it's really

(36:17):
pretty smart if it's allowed where you live, and I
guess it is where she lives. She's going to the
dumpsters behind gift stores such as see where she going.
She's going to Burlington, She's going to Joe ann Stores, Popshelf,
home Goods, there was another TJ. Max. All these stores

(36:40):
she's going to and finding perfectly good seasonal decoration, seasonal gifts,
all this stuff in the dumpsters. The store's just throw
it away because they don't want to store it for
a year, and so they just leave it outside. They
just haul it outside and wait for the trash to
get picked up. And she's knocking home every time she goes.

(37:01):
Apparently good for her. That's pretty slick. Would you ever
do that? Will? I don't think that I would. She's
find she's finding artificial Christmas trees, ornaments, wreaths, gifts. She
says she saved thousands of dollars by doing that, thousands
of bucks. I still I don't. I'm not doing that.

(37:25):
But for if for somebody who's super young and doesn't
have a lot and wants to be what has a
very giving spirit, a good place to find some stuff
worth passing along. Maybe find some wrapping paper and a
couple of rolls of tape in there too, and some bows.
But you can find all the rapid stuff too. All right,
there's a twelve year old German shepherd. This is another
just a feel good story German shepherd named Bear. Okay,

(37:49):
and Bear. He's over in Great Britain somewhere, I'm not
exactly sure where. But the event that is in the
story took place in the beautiful Green Hills of southern England.
That says the bear is a former police dog. He
was a tracking dog, and Bear had some surgeries and

(38:11):
had to go out and start walking again. He had
a couple of there were tumors that actually had to
be removed from Bear, and part of his therapy was
to get out and keep walking and moving. And so
his owners, both of whom were former police officers themselves,
who adopted that dog once he was taken out of service.
I'm twelve years old. He's an old dog. They're out

(38:31):
there for a walk, getting old Bear back rehab to
whatever his new self would be. This was on November
twenty eighth. They're walking around, walking the trails of the
Southern Hills and Bear puts his nose to the ground
and takes them just drags them off the trail and
deep deep into the woods where they found a guy

(38:53):
who had fallen several days prior and couldn't get up
and couldn't get out of there. And they found the guy.
He was immobile, he was confused. I think he'd been
there for a day or two, maybe he'd just fallen
down that morning, but anyway, he was wet and cold
and darn glad to see bear and that man and

(39:15):
wife come to his rescue. How about that will for
good news? All right? You like that? It's fine. You're
not enthusiastic about You don't care. You don't care about
the poor old man in England. Oh, it doesn't affect
your life at all time, No one A day, every
day will Four signs that your body needs more vitamins

(39:37):
and minerals. If you have brittle fingernails, do you have those? Nope?
That would mean you were low on iron. I lid
twitching could mean you need magnesium. Clicking in your knees,
you know, could mean you're just old. Also could mean
you need more calcium. And the last one bruising easily

(39:58):
could be a sign you need vitamin And see I
actually do take a daily vitamin now most days on
my way to work, I'll grab a little something to
eat for work on the way in and eat that
vitamin right after that. Five seconds. That's all we've got,
all right, we'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. We'll
get this year off to a great start, I promise. Audios.